Hyderabad University Reopens Today Post Rohith’s Death

Hyderabad:The University Of Hyderabad (UoH) reopens on Monday confirmed a registrar by issuing a circular in this regard .The university is set to function normally from February 1. However, the friends and supporters of the PhD scholar will continue their hunger strike outside the university to seek justice.

Also, three teachers of Hyderabad Central University had sat on a one-day hunger strike demanding that Vice-Chancellor Appa Rao Podile be removed and in-charge VC Vipin Srivastava step down, in order to resume academic and administrative activities

Meanwhile, the Joint Action Committee for Social Justice, spearheading the agitation over Rohith’s suicide, said that students would intensify the “struggle” till all their demands are met.

Their demands include Podile’s resignation, and also Srivastava’s from the post of in-charge VC, “sacking” from Union Cabinet of HRD Minister Smriti Irani, employment to a family member of Rohith and Rs 50 lakh compensation to his family.